[ietf-dkim] SSP draft suggestions

[Stephen Farrell]

Arvel Hathcock wrote:
>  > A top-level domain is one that has exactly one component, e.g., "com",
>  > "org", "uk", or "tv".  We also talk about suffixes, which would
>  > probably include "co.uk", "k12.ca.us", and "edu.au".  We mandate not
>  > querying the top-level domains, since they can be algorithmically
>  > determined and we really don't want to unnecessarily load the TLD
>  > servers.
> 
> Thanks much for clearing this up for me.  I'm obviously not a DNS 
> expert.  Now that I understand better I see I was wrong and it will be 
> possible to algorithmically avoid querying the TLDs.
> 

Well, I'm not sure that's entirely true, but it may be good enough,
I'm not sure. (We do have some similar text in base though so adding
that here as well isn't very different.)

S.